Friday, 15 June 2012
Researchers at the Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Göteborg have
managed to implant a blood vessel made from a patient’s own stem cells
in a ten year old, sick girl. One year after surgery she now is doing
pretty fine making the researchers to hope that this could be a method
to assist patients who need bypass surgery.
The process involves approach, in making the vein perform better
took three to four weeks, according to Michael Olausson, a professor at
the Transplantation Center at the hospital. The vein for the girl was
obtained from a donation from a deceased person, reports radio Sweden. “Then we have
removed all cells and all the genetic material, and after that we have
brought stem cells from the patient who will receive the blood vessel
and then grow this vessel out again,” says Michael Olausson, Professor
and Director of the Transplant Center at the Sahlgrenska University
Hospital in Gothenburg to radio Sweden.
At the moment, Michael Olausson and his team believe that the approach
could be of great help to many people with plug formation in their
blood vessels and that they need to undergo a so-called "bypass
surgery".
Asked how important is it that the patient's own stem cells are
included in the vein? Michael Olausson replied that it has to do with
the immune system recognizing the tissue as its own and thus will not
reject it. For him and the patient, it's a big advantage. All the
medications that are normally given to avoid the body rejecting the new
cell is very powerful and can cause side effects, so it is desirable to
avoid them.
He adds that this new method is also very important so that “we’ll be
able to solve problem around such things as hearts or kidneys in the
future. The next big step for us is probably a work around to get
arteries to function well. This opens the door and then maybe, be able
to produce whole organs,” says Michael Olausson.
By Scancomark.se Team
Swedish Foreign minister, Bildt believe that Sweden should be the superpower – Wikileaks leaks
Monday, 27 February 2012
Swedish foreign Minister, Carl Bildt has been exposed once again in
another strange side of things by another Wikileaks leaks. In one of
its recent releases, Bildt is reported to have considered that Sweden
should become a superpower, that Putin is a “chetnik” and that Bildt is in intense disagrees with French president, Nicolas Sarkozy.
In an email exchange with the think tank, Strategic Forecasting
(Stratfor) which was apparently intercepted by Wikileaks, it provides
information as to what is in the mind of the minister, reports Swedish
television.
The source, known as SW501, describes Carl Bildt, as very smart with a
photographic memory. Bildt is also reported to have a frosty
relationship with Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt dating from the time
when Reinfeldt was MUF chairman and him Bildt Prime Minister of Sweden.
According to the source Bildt stated that Sweden should become a
superpower in the world. He talks a lot about Sweden’s traditional
influence in the Baltic region, and experience in the Balkans means
that he does not like Croats and Albanians.
The documents released by WikiLeaks, described Bildt as very critical
of Russia and he is considered persona non grata there. He would also
have called Putin a “chetnik” Serbian nationalist.
Bildt according SW501 also disagree with France’s president Sarkozy
after Sweden criticized France at the time of the Swedish EU presidency.
In the correspondences it also noted that Carl Bildt work for an
enlargement of the EU. The purpose according to it is stated to be to
break up the German-French domination in Europe.
Carl Bildt has no comment on the information from WikiLeaks, his press secretary Anna Charlotta Johansson said.
“We do not usually comment on Wikileaks information and this is the information of third parties.
But Bildt later commented via the micro-blog network Twitter that:
“Wikileaks has released obscure email that says for a long time I have
very long photographic memory and that I am very intelligent. This a
little ridiculous,” wrote Bildt.
Less than a week ago, the tabloid newspaper, Expressen, wrote that
Wikileaks is planning an international smear campaign against Sweden
for its plan to interrogate the founder, Assange and who could be sent
to the U.S., where he is wanted for the leaks.
Among other things, the organisation has threatened to publish an
American diplomat report that Carl Bildt is singled out as an informant
for the U.S. since the 1970s.
By Scancomark.se Team
